Poland: Environment Ministers Gather

Warsaw, 4 September 1997 (RFE/RL) - Environment ministers from Central and Eastern Europe are gathering today in the Polish city of Torun.

Our Warsaw correspondent reports ministers from Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine are meeting with their Polish counterpart in the town on the Vistula river, just north of Warsaw.

Poland's environmental protection ministry said that the ministers are expected to sign a cooperation agreement on environmental preservation, waste processing, ecological education, and soil and air pollution.